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CFPs FOR TWO EVENTS IN
2023, A Conference in June and a Symposium in August:
An
ISS Conference at
The
College
Of William
and Mary
in
Williamsburg, Virginia
on June
8-9-10-11.
ISS President Bob Gaines, a graduate of William
& Mary, will preside. The
ISS seeks paper presentations on the topic of “Shaw and Heroism” and how
this is represented in his writings and experiences. Send proposals
and CVs to Laurie Wolf, Professor of Theater and Managing Editor of A
Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas, at <ljwolf@wm.edu> (757-221-2671). And please copy Bob
Gaines at <rgaines@aum.edu> in your message. Deadline for proposals for presentations is March 1, 2023. You will be notified of
your acceptance status by March 40, 2023.
The International
Shaw Society will be offering several travel grants aimed at
young and emerging scholars from all over the world interested in
participating in the Conference. Apply for these grants using the form
you will find at:
https://www.shawsociety.org/ISSGrants&Scholarships-2023.htm.
The deadline for applying is March 1, 2023.
Participants
interested in applying for one of these grants must send their proposals,
together with the grant form, to the Conference address (Please copy ISS President Bob
Gaines at rgaines@aum.edu in your message>.
A Summer Symposium at the
Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, on July 20-21-22,
2023.
In 2023, in celebration of the 20th
anniversary of the ISS, there will be an ISS Summer Shaw Symposium on
July 20-21-22, for which paper proposals are invited. If you can’t attend
the actual Symposium, one may also choose to register for a Zoomed
version of this 2023 Symposium. For the actual Symposium, Travel Grants and Scholarships will be available to “emerging
scholars.” See https://shawsociety.org/ISS-Grants&Scholarships-2023.htm. Following is the official CFP from ISS Vice President Jennifer
Buckley:
Shaw Symposium, 20-22, July 2023
The Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario,
Canada.
The International Shaw Society and the
Shaw Festival invite scholars and theatre artists to present new work at
the 20thannual Summer Shaw Symposium. The event will be held
on-site at the Festival.
Focused on Bernard Shaw’s life, his works,
his contemporaries, and his legacies, the Symposium seeks presentations
that relate to the plays included in the Shaw Festival’s 2023 season,
especially Village Wooing and The Apple Cart..
We especially welcome proposals for presentations that consider the
connections between Shaw and the other playwrights whose works will be
staged at the Festival in 2023. Please see https://www.shawfest.com/whats-on-tickets/ for a full list of productions.
Send abstracts (250 words, PDF, your
last name in the file title) and an abbreviated CV (PDF) to Jennifer-buckley@uiowa.edu by February 28, 2023. Travel grants
and scholarships are available; for application instructions, see https://www.shawsociety.org/ISS-Grants&Scholarships-2023.htm.
Jen Buckley
Associate
Professor of English and Theatre Arts
University of
Iowa
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CFP for JOURNALS
The bi-annual SHAW: THE
JOURNAL OF BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, published by the Pennsylvania State
University Press (see http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_shaw. html) is always looking for new
material. Contact the General Editor, Christopher Wixson,
at cmwixson@uei.edu. Specifically, future volumes are:
SHAW 43.2 (December 2023) and SHAW 44.2 (December
2024) will include articles on general topics. For inquiries about those
issues or other information about SHAW, contact Christopher
Wixson at cmwixson@eiu.edu.
SHAW 44.1 (June 2024): VICTORIAN
SHAW
Guest Editor:
Mary Christian chrismae@alumni.iu.edu
The
Victorian era, usually defined as the period between 1837 and 1901, has
been variously characterized as a time of breakneck scientific progress
and rigid tradition, of widening democracy and insular hierarchy, of
imperial expansion and the cult of domesticity. Bernard Shaw’s
relationship with the era has been similarly argued over. Born twenty
years into Queen Victoria’s reign and remaining active and prolific
nearly half a century beyond its end, he has been described both as a
product of Victorianism and as a rebel against it, an irrepressible
herald of the Modern period. Howard Mumford Jones, a few years after
Shaw’s death, called him an exemplar of “the energy, the fecundity, the
curiosity of the great Victorians”; yet Stanley Kauffmann, a few decades
later, would declare of Shaw’s nineteenth-century contemporaries that
“their energy seems concentric, whirling in a closed circle around their
lives and era,” while with Shaw, “the energy seems to whirl forward, to
burst continually into a succession of futures.” Taking these varying
judgments as a point of departure, SHAW 44.1 will focus on the theme of
“Victorian Shaw.” This special issue welcomes articles that analyze
Shaw’s connections or responses to particular people, events, texts,
artistic works, or movements of the Victorian period, as well as articles
that more broadly assess Shaw’s role in the field of Victorian Studies.
Please submit essays by 1 May 2023. Inquiries and proposals should be
directed to guest editor Mary Christian at mary.christian@mga.edu.
SHAW
45.1 (June
2025) SHAW AND THE NEW MODERNIST STUDIES
Guest Editor:
Desmond Harding Hardi1d@cmich.edu
In
the now well-established terrain of the “new modernist studies,” we have
become accustomed to revisionist and expansionist projects that open the
field both theoretically and empirically to challenge earlier assumptions
regarding the teleology of Modernism’s inner integrity, established
practitioners, aesthetic practices, period boundaries, and principal
geographical and social locations. Moreover, the study of modernism’s
multiple and shifting locations beyond a traditional European-American
axis is part of an ongoing process of revisionism that takes its cue from
an analysis of the uneven experience of modernity viewed in both
globalizing and transnational terms. The aim of SHAW 45.1 (June 2025) is to take the
measure of Shaw’s place in relation to contested notions of literary
modernism as the substantial expansion of its temporal and geographical
scope reforms our understanding of the limits and limitations of
Modernism, including its very meaning. Dismissed at times by peers and
critics alike as a belated Victorian whose “drama of ideas” lingers on
the borders of formal experimentation and style, a more nuanced account
of Shaw’s voluminous writings—the plays, novels, prefaces, postscripts,
proposals, reviews, pamphlets, broadsides, tracts, editorials, treatises,
manifestoes, reports, and letters (private and public)—confirm his
multifaceted importance as a modernist author whose work constitutes a
series of unfolding relations with society and culture in both national
and transnational settings. Inquiries and manuscript submissions are
welcomed and should be sent to guest editor Dr. Desmond Harding at either
hardi1d@cmich.edu or Department of English Language and Literature, Central
Michigan University, Anspach 301F, Mount
Pleasant, MI 48859.
SHAW
45.2 (December
2025) will include articles on general topics. For inquiries about those
issues or other information about SHAW, contact Christopher
Wixson at cmwixson@eiu.edu
The Shaw Society UK has its own
journal called The Shavian, and for that see http://www.shawsociety.org.uk/ Or email Anne Wright (annemwright@btinternet.com). You can subscribe to either journal when you
renew or begin an ISS membership: just click on https://www.shawsociety.org/ISSMembership2023.htm.
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